Press and Updates
York Calling’s review of album
"The lyrics are what make it such a great album. Beckett does not dilute Brel in any way meaning we get all his bitterness, humour, and theatricality." - Graeme Smith of York Calling
Rock and the Beat Generation’s review of album
"An album of Brel's work featuring new lyric translations and a gripping musical framework that resonates with a dark energy, an indie rock swagger."
Discovering Belgium’s review of album
“"This is one of the most thoughtful, respectful, and convincing reinterpretations of Brel... The result is not nostalgic, but feels alive and contemporary; alert to Brel’s emotional urgency while speaking in a modern musical language." - Denzil Walton of Discovering Belgium
A Song In Life’s review of album
“Larry Beckett performs a vivid ode on this sprawling album.” - a song in life
The Riff’s review of album
“With Though We Have Only Love: The Songs of Jacques Brel, Larry Beckett offers an illuminating glimpse into the overwhelming emotion of love.” - Randall Radic of The Riff
Music Millennium Record Store - Album Release Performance and Signing
Though We Have Only Love: The Songs of Jacques Brel
In Store Peformance and Release Event.
A Unique and Bespoke Object
A cassette tape of the 2022 London performance by Larry Beckett & Stuart Anthony now available
Rock and the Beat Generation
Simon Warner shared an email postcard from UK guitarist Stuart Anthony who, in June, was in London for a live gig with Larry and then in Paris to visit the inspiration for the Apollinaire poem that gives the duo’s most recent album release Mirabeau Bridge its Gallic title…
Kind Words
Larry Beckett on Marc Zegans’ Lyon Street: “True poetry: rooted in San Francisco streets and cafés, lovingly evoking the actual, flowering into the myth of California, this collection has the look of a classic.”
Interview - On Writing American Cycle
Simon Warner’s “Beat Soundtrack #20: Larry Beckett”: Larry Beckett is an American poet, playwright, novelist, songwriter and literary critic. He has had several books of poetry and prose published including Songs and Sonnets, Beat Poetry, and the book-length poems, Paul Bunyan, Wyatt Earp, and Amelia Earhart, which were collected with seven others as the epic American Cycle, a 47-year project, published in April 2021 by Running Wild Press in Los Angeles.
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Signed by the artists - lyric booklet.
American Cycle Streaming
The Orchard has released Larry’s audio performances of the long poems that constitute American Cycle.
Mirabeau Bridge
Larry Beckett and Stuart Anthony’s new album ‘Mirabeau Bridge’ produced by Paul Walmsley has been released.
1967: The Year in 50 Classic Rock Albums
“…ornate, expansive masterwork that revealed its creator to be way more than just another troubadour with a guitar. The title track is brilliant, as was the single “Morning Glory.”
The Anti-Explainer Insight of “Soul Music”
The New Yorker ran a nice piece last week about @bbc Radio 4 “Soul Music” show, including some nice words about our episode on “Song to the Siren.”
Amelia Earhart
“above that ceiling of mist,
in this blue world, the sun is always out.”
Amelia Earhart Come meet the Poet
A ghost-woman’s ruminations on the joys & injustices of her life fly through her memory.
Jim Fielder, Jann Klose and Larry Beckett
from 2013